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Can we please see what the following guys are doing..
Guerillmo del Toro

Peter Jackson

Ridley Scott

Steven Speilberg

Paul W S. anderson (thats right I went there)

Robert Rodriguez

The Guy who did 300

James Cameron

Paul Verhoeven

John McTiernan

Alfonso Cuarón

Gore Verbinski

The Warshowski's

Doug Liman

Seth Green

or the guy who did ALF

NOTE: Just kidding about the last one, Not Paul though.

If this is true dont expect to transformers tor like 5 years from what I hear Bay is schedule to do a Comic Book movie in the Sin city/300 style. (I say Blah because this is a low budget technique that focuses on subtlness, not one of Bay's strong suits) and a movie about the Apocolypse. so he already has a bit of a full plate.

Phategod1 wrote:If this is true dont expect to transformers tor like 5 years from what I hear Bay is schedule to do a Comic Book movie in the Sin city/300 style. (I say Blah because this is a low budget technique that focuses on subtlness, not one of Bay's strong suits) and a movie about the Apocolypse. so he already has a bit of a full plate.

I'd guess this is all dependant on the first movie's takehome. If it's colossal (even sans faceplate) I'm sure Bay will open up his schedule.

I can't say I'm surprised, assuming this is true.

Hahahah, "Hire some Takara Crew"... So the movie will look like a Power Rangers Spinoff.

im not suprised at this at all, hell according to a interveiw in empire magazine, peter cullen says he has signed up for THREE movies.

Dear god no!

As TF fans, I hope that this is one thing that we can unite on.

Yet another reason to want this movie to flop.

Everyone! Be Thankful it'snot Uwe Boll

i_amtrunks wrote:Yet another reason to want this movie to flop.

So that no one touches the property for a decade or two, at which point the franchise may not have the appeal it has had the past few years, which will then make it even less likely a new film will be made?

mattyc1007 wrote:Re: Micheal Bay to do Transformers II? (114080)
Posted by Megatron_Wolf on May 8th, 2007 @ 3:58pm CDT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Keep him out of it all together. I want a real Transformer movie next. Not a kick ass action movie with giant robots that happen to turn into cars. Maybe he should go make Bad Boys 3 so that way he cant do the next movie. Id rather see him make another Bad Boys than another TF movie. The next movie needs to be for the fans. Frak the evreyday movie goers. Give us a movie.

Yes give the fans and only the fans a movie so that it will make thousands, and not the millions that the studio spent to give the "Fans" their movie. Why do you think that you are so righteous that you deserve a movie made specifically for you and not all of the other people who like transformers but are not rabid fans or "purists".

More and more you give Bay & Co. reason to not listen to what the fans have to say regarding things because all you can do is bash what he does and how he does it. Not everyone may like his movie style but theres a reason he is making 200 million dolar movies and we are sitting on our ass bitching about his decisions.

Uhh considering Michael Bay himself has already talked about doing the sequals (note: plural) in several interviews, I'm not sure why this is even "news". This is his new franchise, so no kidding he's going to do the sequal(s) if the studio gives a greenlight.

I am not a big Bay Fan, he makes movies that you see once and are cool. Watch them again, and eh... I will give him a chance though and try to keep an open mind. I agree, I won't think about the sequal untill I see the first one.

On the other hand I am a big Iron Man fan too, and look at the armor they designed (built by Stan Winston) and you can make a good design based on the source material. Look At Spider-man's costume, its pretty much like the comic, with some tweeks. They could "update" the Cartoon style by making it more realist and cool, while at the same time keeping to the heart of the original design.

Chris™ wrote:

mattyc1007 wrote:Re: Micheal Bay to do Transformers II? (114080)
Posted by Megatron_Wolf on May 8th, 2007 @ 3:58pm CDT

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Keep him out of it all together. I want a real Transformer movie next. Not a kick ass action movie with giant robots that happen to turn into cars. Maybe he should go make Bad Boys 3 so that way he cant do the next movie. Id rather see him make another Bad Boys than another TF movie. The next movie needs to be for the fans. Frak the evreyday movie goers. Give us a movie.

Yes give the fans and only the fans a movie so that it will make thousands, and not the millions that the studio spent to give the "Fans" their movie. Why do you think that you are so righteous that you deserve a movie made specifically for you and not all of the other people who like transformers but are not rabid fans or "purists".

More and more you give Bay & Co. reason to not listen to what the fans have to say regarding things because all you can do is bash what he does and how he does it. Not everyone may like his movie style but theres a reason he is making 200 million dolar movies and we are sitting on our ass bitching about his decisions.

Very few of us Starting Bitching when Bay was announced as Director. I had more reservations with Brett Rattner then Bay I would say my emotion was more apprehensive then anything else, and I actually gave him the benifit of the doubt. But it was rediculous decision after Rediculous decision that reinforced my apprehension and my belief that Micheal is a great Stunt Coordinator but a Piss poor Director. I Honestly think Paul W.S Anderson is better Director his only problem is like Rattner he's a YES man he'll take what ever poor Budget a studio gives him or decision to make a movie PG-13 he'll stick with but when you give anderson room to breath he makes fully servicable movies. He just needs to grow a Micheal Bay like back bone.

Hanch Prime wrote:I am not a big Bay Fan, he makes movies that you see once and are cool. Watch them again, and eh... I will give him a chance though and try to keep an open mind. I agree, I won't think about the sequal untill I see the first one.

On the other hand I am a big Iron Man fan too, and look at the armor they designed (built by Stan Winston) and you can make a good design based on the source material. Look At Spider-man's costume, its pretty much like the comic, with some tweeks. They could "update" the Cartoon style by making it more realist and cool, while at the same time keeping to the heart of the original design.

I saw that a couple of weeks ago and it looks awesome thats another Director I'd like see helm this project
Jon Favreau.

Phategod1 wrote:

Hanch Prime wrote:I am not a big Bay Fan, he makes movies that you see once and are cool. Watch them again, and eh... I will give him a chance though and try to keep an open mind. I agree, I won't think about the sequal untill I see the first one.

On the other hand I am a big Iron Man fan too, and look at the armor they designed (built by Stan Winston) and you can make a good design based on the source material. Look At Spider-man's costume, its pretty much like the comic, with some tweeks. They could "update" the Cartoon style by making it more realist and cool, while at the same time keeping to the heart of the original design.

I saw that a couple of weeks ago and it looks awesome thats another Director I'd like see helm this project
Jon Favreau.

Yeah, that movie is gonna rock! NO ONE has bitched about Iron Man's design. As an artist myself, I just don't like the look of the Bayformers. They look to Angular for me. I was disapointed, I think they could have done better.

I personally dig the complex designs. Look at where the toys came from and the simplicity of all the robot series designs in the late 70s/early 80s. Even the japanese designs have become more complex over the years for other robot shows, INCLUDING TRANSFORMERS.

But hey, if ya want it simple, they could always make SPYCHANGERS THE MOVIE. Would certainly save them a bundle on transformation effects.

As long as they make the Transformers more like the bots we know and love, especially the faces, they can have whoever they want as the director.

Phategod1 wrote:Can we please see what the following guys are doing..
Guerillmo del Toro

Peter Jackson

Ridley Scott

Steven Speilberg

Paul W S. anderson (thats right I went there)

Robert Rodriguez

The Guy who did 300

James Cameron

Paul Verhoeven

John McTiernan

Alfonso Cuarón

Gore Verbinski

The Warshowski's

Doug Liman

Seth Green

or the guy who did ALF

NOTE: Just kidding about the last one, Not Paul though.

Peter Jackson and Robert Rodriguez? No thank you! TF would either end up a 4 hour movie with 30 DVD releases adding on to the length, or a B-movie wanna be like "Grind House."

Roboto750 wrote:

Phategod1 wrote:Can we please see what the following guys are doing..
Guerillmo del Toro

Peter Jackson

Ridley Scott

Steven Speilberg

Paul W S. anderson (thats right I went there)

Robert Rodriguez

The Guy who did 300

James Cameron

Paul Verhoeven

John McTiernan

Alfonso Cuarón

Gore Verbinski

The Warshowski's

Doug Liman

Seth Green

or the guy who did ALF

NOTE: Just kidding about the last one, Not Paul though.

Peter Jackson and Robert Rodriguez? No thank you! TF would either end up a 4 hour movie with 30 DVD releases adding on to the length, or a B-movie wanna be like "Grind House."

Well if jackson did it noone would be bitching about getting the characters right you have more then 5 autobots and one kick ass battle sequence And you do know that RR did Sincity, El mariachi, desperado, Dusk till Dawn, the spy kids movies and Shark boy and Lava girl. The one Thing about RR is he gives you exaclty what you expect you ask for a comic book movie scene for scene is like panel for panel. But if where profiling do you really want the movie to be Like Amegeddon with Cheesy aerosmith cuts and a sappy love story and a ludicrous astrophysics and half a dozen Tired hollywood cliches.

Yea, but at least Jackson made some good films. A majority of Tolken fans liked what he did, and making 3 movies at one time is no easier chore. Hated Armageddon....felt like my brain wanted to implode seeing that one.

Only good thing is that at least Cullen's gonna be Optimus again after this one, should a sequel happen. And if Hasbro is pushing for more traditional designs, that outta tell you something.

Good. Directorial continuity is a good thing.

Sideshow Sideswipe wrote:DEAR GOD NO!!!!!

Seibertron wrote:Despite my feelings about the designs, I'm extremely excited about the movie. I would like to see the 1st one before I make any judgements about who should do what with a second movie.

I agree with both of you. While my initial thought is I hope not, I really can't make that call till I see the movie.

General Magnus wrote:really i´m starting to become annoyed by this type of threads. You know what I enjoyed Armageddon, and i hope this one is enjoyable too. People keep talkig **** about the movie withouth seing first

I've seen the previews. I don't like it one bit. If you enjoyed the disaster that was Armageddon then I'm sure you will enjoy Transformers.
Once I found out it was Michael Bay I knew this movie was going to suck. The only movies he made that I like are Bad Boys & The Rock. Pearl Harbor had nothing to do with WW2. He made it into a crappy love triangle story.

xxaMaxx wrote:

First-Aid wrote:celebrate the fact that there WILL BE a second one no matter what!

Yeah, movies don't even have to be good anymore to get sequels. Just look at Fantastic Four.
Seriously, though, I am hoping that the TF movie turns out to be incredible. I really don't know if it will or not, but I'm hoping.

I liked the Fantastic Four.
Now if you said Battlefield Earth then you may have had a point.
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The Paragon of Virtue wrote:

i_amtrunks wrote:Yet another reason to want this movie to flop.

So that no one touches the property for a decade or two, at which point the franchise may not have the appeal it has had the past few years, which will then make it even less likely a new film will be made?

Uh yes. Yet there was Beast Wars...

Autobot_Goldbug wrote:Uh yes. Yet there was Beast Wars...

What's your point? How does Beast Wars prove that if this movie is a monumental flop that someone will want to make another major Transformers movie in the near future?